Thursday, 30 August 2012

Ever wanted to play a game as a giant Monster rampaging through a city and destroying everything in its path?
Or wanted to control a team of Supremes (supers) set on stopping a Super Villains latest huge robo invention?

Or course you have!

Well very soon you will be able to.
Monsters are coming to Pulp City. Giant Monsters, Robots and Elder Gods in fact!

As a little taster to the new rules, Devon (aka Beermokey) has posted up a preview of how to create rules for a massive Robot, and the final rules for his 'Wycthbot'.

Sunday, 26 August 2012

After a huge battle that lasted for hours, the dust settled and 2 Supers were left standing.
1 Hero and 1 Villain. Facing off across the rubble.

Who were they?

(Wasn't listed as H or V so has taken the Villains side)

Codename: Terminal VelocityReal Name: Alexander Vizcezk

Quote: “This will be over quickly.”

Powers:
Terminal Velocity has the ability to control velocity. He can either
enhance or decrease the motive force of a body, even going so far as to
reverse the velocity back along its vector. While conscious, Terminal
Velocity continually emits an ongoing field, centimeters above his own
skin.

In practical terms, he is surrounded by a continual force
field that blunts the incoming force of all attacks, but energy attacks
still hurt him to a much greater degree than physical ones.

He
carries a supply of thrown weaponry at all times, even if it is
something as simple as a few ball bearings. Accelerated to over twice
the speed of sound, they are as damaging as a high caliber gunshot. For
less lethal purposes, he also generally has a few bean bags on him that
can stun without inflicting too much trauma.

In hand to hand
combat, he is a devastating force to be reckoned with, but his great
power is offset by his relative lack of skill.

He has also been
seen to use his power to enhance his own movement speed, causing him to
“walk” at high subsonic speeds. Theoretically, he should be able to
redirect his velocity and fly, but at present, he is limited to "slow
falls", or negating his velocity to the point that he can fall any
distance without harm.

Background: “Look mommy, look!” Alex
cried as he added another bowling pin into the pattern he had whizzing
in front of his amazed mother. “I’m up to 4 pins now!”

Youthfully
juggling his little heart out, Alex was pretty sure this was the best
birthday ever! He had just gotten to 4 pins, he was now TEN years old,
not a little kid anymore, and his dad would be coming home any second
from the science place to give him a special present. He’d told Alex it
was going to change everything! The pins whirled in front of him,
seeming to speed up as they went. It got harder and harder to keep them
going. They just kept getting faster. And faster. And faster. Blood
began to fall from his hands as the pins struck with crushing force,
but they kept dancing back into the air. He heard his mother crying his
name in fear as the door opened and his dad said “Where’s the birthday
boy?”

And the pins exploded into motion.

Alex woke screaming.

The
same dream again, his damned tenth birthday. It didn’t matter how many
times he tried to console himself, or how many times his father tried
to convince him otherwise, that was the day he’d killed his mother.
Even now the after image of the dreams tried to creep back to the fore
as he saw the pins accelerate away from his battered hands like
cannonballs. Two went through the door, one of which shattered his
dad’s right arm. One went through the floor, fast enough to penetrate
through the basement, and two feet into the foundation. The last one…

Alex
shook his head again to clear the dream. He reached out and grabbed
his cellphone off of the nightstand, flicking it on to see the time;
three in the morning. Sleep was out of the question, so it was time to
see if some of the criminal element wanted to pay the price for Alex’s
nightmares.

Description: Alexander is about 6’ 1” with dark
brown, close cropped hair and pale blue-grey eyes. His build is
athletic, with wide shoulders and a narrow waist.

His common
costume is a combat harness on top of a grey, tough, fitted jumpsuit.
In addition to the pouches on the harness, he adds a utility belt and a
short waist length black leather jacket. The jumpsuit leads to a cowl
that covers most of his face, excepting his mouth, eyes, and hair.

To further conceal his identity, Alexander will often wear a shoulder length blond wig.

And his Heroic opponent?

Name: Farraday KageHero (reluctant)

Though his origin stems from science, F.K. (as his friends call him) would more likely say it was "nominative determinism."

When
he was a child, his parents always attributed malfunctions of
electronic devices to unseen "gremlins" roaming the house. The truth
soon became apparent, that their son's touch somehow interfered with
anything electronic operating properly.

As he grew up, the radius
of his influence to cancel out parts of the electromagentic spectrum
extended. As a teen, no one within 10 feet of him could expect to
receive cell phone calls or access WiFi on their computers.

It
was at 22 that the real strength of his power became apparent when,
during a storm, F.K. was struck by lighting -- or rather he would've
been, if the bolt hadn't dissipated in a dome-like pattern around the
young man. Excited, F.K. ran to his family's shed, grabbed an old golf
club and climbed a nearby trailer. When another electrical bolt flew
down toward him, F.K. flung out his arms and was able to redirect the
blast to the posts of his mother's laundry lines.

Since then,
F.K. has learned to pull electric current from nearby lines and direct
it in powerful bolts/blasts. He has also learned to extend his immunity
to electrical blasts to others, expanding the radius of his own field
briefly to encompass them. His innate interference with the EM spectrum
also prevents many types of communication, which has played havoc with
the few enemy teams F.K. has come up against.

Now in his late
20s, F.K. works with a local group of heroes because he's hooked on
finding a constructive use for this aspect of his life that he always
thought made him a freak. Additionally, some of the more experienced
team members are helping him discover new applications for his talents.

After a battle of powers, Terminal Velocity seemed to have the upper hand. Putting Farraday Kage to the floor again and again with his trademark ball bearings.
Looking into the rubble around him, Faraday spotted some exposed wires. Drawing on the power of the still live cables, Farraday directed all the energy towards the metal ball bearings in the pouches of Velocity's suit.
As the energy flowed, Velocity fell.
Farraday was a lucky man. One more hit and it would have been him lying on the ground that day.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

A new gaming store is opening in Truro, Cornwall tomorrow. (Friday 24th August)Troll Trader (link) is already a well known online retailer and will now have a new store with ALL the facilities.
Room for 20+ gaming tables, food and drink and much much more.

Looks like the Covens Dead Guard to me.
Check out the artwork posted a while back

This was also posted at the same time.

"A little sneak peak at what's coming this week.
The new Pulp Monsters website will be up if server gods and one
particular server guy helps us with it. There will be an update on
what's going on and a LOT of long due fluff."

The new Pulp City website is almost here. Yay!
And its going to include LOADS of new background fluff for the Supremes. Not only will that be posted from day one, MORE fluff will be added on a weekly basis!
You can find the currently posted background >>HERE<<

MONSTERS are very close as well.
Quoted from Beermonkey on the Pulp City Forums -

"I've spent damn near the last 10 hours working on getting this thing
done. I'm talking layout, (it won't be great I'm no layout artist)
adding in some things that we were originally going to be left out: New
Resources, Traps, Plot Updates, and more work on fluff. "

New rules to use HUGE 80mm based Monsters in your city. Monster v Monster? Monster v Supremes? Up to you?
Not only will there be some preset rules for the official Pulp City Monster kit (above) and others, there will be rules to create ANY type of Beast, Elder or Robot you can imagine!
To top it off it will also contain new artwork, new Plots (scenarios), new Resources and even MORE fluff!
I cant wait to get my hands on these.
In preparation In a building a range of Monsters.

Don't have any Pulp City yet?
Want some?
Or some Chronoscope Heroes and Villains instead?
Well you have 3 days left to enter the 'Create a Super/Supreme' contest on this blog at the moment and win a set of 12 or 13 Super Minis! Worth up to £70
Full details >>HERE<<

Saturday, 11 August 2012

There has been a lot of news and such on here recently and not very much about what I'm doing in my own hobby.
That's mainly due to the time I have had. Which as you can guess, has been not very much.

But I didn't mange to get some Merc Warjack conversion done recently.
The first 3 of many to come.
A converted Buccaneer with a porthole style head, Running Mariner with Freebooter head and legs and a plodding Freebooter with Mariner head and legs.

Here is the next plan. A Piratey Vanguard. Only waiting for a bit to arrive.
EDIT: This will be followed by Captain Bartolo, Fiona the Black, a converted Mariner and a Mariner/Rociante conversion

I have also started to paint finally.
First up with my new attempt and painting properly, Necrplanes Dr.Tenebrous, Doom Train and Night Fright from Pulp City.
(store pics, not mine)

EDIT: I am also going to be painting the Necroplane Minions. Necro GIs. Again these are the studio painted minis, not my own.

EDIT: For my Pulp City building, I have 4 models on the table. BIG ones.
2 official PC Monsters (Dino and Daemon), a 6.5" UFO and a huge Steampunk Dragon. Getting ready for the 'soon to be released' Pulp City Monster Rules.

On the topic of Pulp City, there is still a week to enter the competition to win £70 of Pulp City or £60 of Reapers Chronoscope. All you need to do is think up a Hero or Villain of your own.
Full Details >>HERE<<